Ian Carmichael

[Frog in Suit]

FiS, amazon.co.uk have it in stock at £10 less.


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Dear Shredder,
Thank you, but unless I am mistaken (I may have looked at the wong site), these are zone 1 DVDs, viewable in North America, not Europe. I even saw some video cassettes! I did not know they still existed! I can't watch them anyway, not that I am exactly at the forefront of technology but I have moved beyond celluloid film .

Frog in Suit

[shredder]

Obviously, the more enquiries, the greater the likelihood of them producing the DVDs.
NJS

Done!!

[shredder]

Dear Shredder,
Thank you, but unless I am mistaken (I may have looked at the wong site), these are zone 1 DVDs, viewable in North America, not Europe. I even saw some video cassettes! I did not know they still existed! I can't watch them anyway, not that I am exactly at the forefront of technology but I have moved beyond celluloid film .

Frog in Suit

FiS, don't give up so easily!! Region 2, PAL: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lord-Peter-Wims ... HVX9ULS12B

Regardless, you might want to check to see if your DVD player can decode region 1 (my crummy little one does) and whether your telly can show NTSC software (my ancient, even crummier one does).

s

[storeynicholas]

I think that most computers allow changes of region for a limited number of changes, to watch DVDs encoded for different regions.
NJS

[shredder]

NJS, now you're getting way too technical. I never would have guessed that you are an egghead!

s

[storeynicholas]

I had to get to grips with this because we have a significant number of European DVDs, that just cannot be played on South American DVD players and the option to change region on the computers is really quite straight forward. Just keep track of how many changes you may make and not, ultimately, to end up with a selected region that is little use. If I were a true egghead I'd have worked out by now how to connect the computer DVD drive to the television set and cock a snook at the greedy swine who impose these incomprehensible restrictions on consumers. If anyone happens to know how to do this, I am all ears.
NJS

[shredder]

Well, chaps, I have bad news. Apparently, there are only 2 episodes surviving in the BBC vaults, one of which is available here but only to UK educational institutions: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/478555/. I want to say something extremely rude about the BBC but cannot muster the energy at the moment.

[Frog in Suit]

Regardless, you might want to check to see if your DVD player can decode region 1 (my crummy little one does) and whether your telly can show NTSC software (my ancient, even crummier one does).

s

Ahem! We do not have a television set!

Frog in Suit

[shredder]

Ahem! We do not have a television set!

Frog in Suit

Aha, I need you to speak to the Brunette and reason with her. A couple of weeks ago, she dragged me to the local hi-fi shop to look at new tellies because she had read about a new LED model from Samsung. When I saw the various sizes on display, I asked her why she would want something so bright and then told her that if we brought one of those home and plugged it in, it probably will not work because it's missing the big trapezoidal bit in the back. I don't think she was persuaded...

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[marcelo]

Ahem! We do not have a television set!

Frog in Suit

Aha, I need you to speak to the Brunette and reason with her. A couple of weeks ago, she dragged me to the local hi-fi shop to look at new tellies because she had read about a new LED model from Samsung. When I saw the various sizes on display, I asked her why she would want something so bright and then told her that if we brought one of those home and plugged it in, it probably will not work because it's missing the big trapezoidal bit in the back. I don't think she was persuaded...

s

As a very small child I used to believe it is in the big trapezoidal bit in the back that the small, little people in the tv would hide themselves. You should have used this argument too...

[shredder]

Ah, sounds familiar, Marcelo. I am told that when I was about 3 or 4, I used to cry every time my favourite children's programme ended and declared that I want to enter the television. What I do recall is that when I was about 5, I took apart an old telly and was left feeling a little disappointed to find only a heavy tube and some bits of wire. No little people! Empirical evidence is such a buzz killer.

s

[marcelo]

Ah, sounds familiar, Marcelo. I am told that when I was about 3 or 4, I used to cry every time my favourite children's programme ended and declared that I want to enter the television. What I do recall is that when I was about 5, I took apart an old telly and was left feeling a little disappointed to find only a heavy tube and some bits of wire. No little people! Empirical evidence is such a buzz killer.

s

I wouldn’t have given up at that stage of your empirical research, Shredder, for even tv people are granted a coffee break and holydays. As for the Wooster program, any chances of our getting a teacher login and password? I understand education in a very broad sense and assume the LL to be an important, well-established educational institution.

[shredder]

Marcelo, of course, you're right! They had simply packed up and moved to the new telly! The truth was always right in front of my face! Another lesson reminding one that the value of empirical evidence is subject to interpretation. Well done, Sherlock!